Monday, July 29, 2013

Banana Split Ice Cream Popsicles

Hey Slow Roasters!!! It's celebration time! We are so thrilled to be celebrating our 2 year anniversary with you and take the time to let you know how important y'all are to us. {{{Woot Woot}}}

We are so grateful for every one of you, the last 2 years have been amazing. I fondly remember our first post ever. I remember how exciting it was when someone found us and tried one of our recipes. Getting a comment was an incredible thrill. 2 years later it is still exhilarating to see the comments come in and hear your stories about trying the recipes. You have become like family to us.

What a summer it has been and we are excited to show our gratitude with an awesome John Boos giveaway! {{GIVEAWAY CLOSED}} Congrats to Shirley Cooley!

But first lets talk ice cream. I am so excited to share this recipe for Banana Split Ice Cream Pops. It is all my favorite things about a banana split transformed into a fantastic ice cream pop,complete with a cherry inside! Fresh bananas, strawberries and vanilla ice cream come together to create the base for this chocolate and peanut covered ice pop wonderland.

Coated in homemade magic shell it has a perfectly crisp chocolate and peanut coating to make this my new favorite ice cream pop. I am sure you are going to love it too!

I am even more excited to share our fabulous anniversary giveaway with you. About a month ago the fine people at John Boos sent us our choice of cutting boards to review and also are supplying us with a matching one to give away to YOU, one of our fabulous readers!

I have been using this board for a month now and I have to tell you it is a dream come true. I have wanted a Boos cutting board for years, but never took the time to stop and get one. Now, WE (Chad and I both) are so in love with John Boos products that Chad went and found a Boos Butcher Block for the kitchen too! Which I am head over heels in love.

You know how you see the cooks and chefs on tv work with their board with such ease. They are truly that fabulous. I am so excited by the performance of these cutting boards I am already looking at other models. I can't seem to have enough cutting boards in my kitchen and I would like to replace all of my other sizes with John Boos cutting boards!

Do you think I could have my kitchen redone in John Boos Butcher Block? ❤

Serious quality that will last for years to come. Obviously, I LOVE my cutting board and am certain you will love yours too! I can't wait for one of our lucky readers to receive their very own John Boos Cutting Board! Scroll to the bottom of the page to enter using the Rafflecopter widget. {{GIVEAWAY CLOSED}}

In a large bowl smash 2 ripe bananas with a fork. Add chopped banana and ice cream. Stir to combine. Add strawberries, fold into mixture.

Add 1 cherry to the bottom of each popsicle mold. Pour ice cream mixture into molds. Cover and place sticks into the mold. Freeze for 12 hours.

Spread chopped peanuts across a shallow plate. Dip popsicles into homemade magic shell (in a tall, thin glass or canning jar) and then immediately place on peanuts. Flip and place on a cookie sheet and freeze or serve immediately.

Cooks Note: I store these in sandwich bags until ready to eat to keep them fresh in the freezer.

Disclosure: We are working in partnership with John Boos to review and give away a cutting board. We were not compensated for this post. We did receive a cutting board to review. All thoughts/opinions are of course our own.

I have been reading/following TSRI for about a year now. And I have gotten so many wonderful ideas........like today's. I have all the ingredients, so this will be our afternoon summer treat for today.

I've been reading your blog for a couple of months now ever since I found your page on Facebook. Your recipes are so delicious (the ones I've tried so far) and photos amazing! Please keep sharing your culinary delights with everyone!!

I've been following your posts for about 4 month love it. tried your recipes saved some for later saw the one on this post for the banana split ice cream bar sounds yummy. I would love to win the cutting block been on my wish list.pratersplace@hotmail.com

Hi :) I just love all the tips and chatter on here and been reading it seems like forever but its been 8 or 9 months and tried a lot of the recipes which I just love and look forward to new posts. Keep up the love for food and the sharing of good recipes.

I discovered your blog a few months ago and I am so happy I did because I love it and have already tried several recipes. This banana split popsicle recipe is gonna be another tried recipe real soon. My granddaughter's are going to love them :-)

I can see my daughter enjoying this in place of dinner!! It's the chocolate dip that did it for me though. LOVE!And we love your blog too! Your photos jump off of facebook, always so beautiful. How long? Seems like as long as I've been reading blogs! Keep up the good work and congratulations!

I've been reading for 2-3 months . . . I especially love all the popsicles! We have had a spat of warm weather (weird for us), so I have been making a ton of fresh juiced popsicles. I'll have to save this one for a special occasion for my husband since he loves banana splits so much!

I have been following you for I think either 4 or 5 mths now.Love reading the recipes & had made a few of them.I'm going to look into my family history before I got married my last name was Boos. That's so neat

Love your blog, have tried many of your recipes. I would love to win this cutting board. I do a lot of cooking and one of my cutting boards is really little and the bigger one is broken. I just can't afford a good cutting board right now. So pick me to win, please!!